​The Anti-Money Laundering Permanent Committee (AMLPC), in cooperation with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF), hosts a joint assessor training during the period 8-12/5/2022 in Riyadh.

On this occasion, the Vice Chairman of the AMPLC, Mr. Adel Al-Qulish delivered a speech welcoming the experts and participants in the workshop, and expressing his appreciation to the contributors from the AMLPC's Secretariats and the Secretariats of FATF and MENAFATF in their preparing and organizing of the workshop.

Mr. Adel Al-Qulish stressed the importance of training and developing qualified human resources in all various activities of combating those crimes, including preparing and qualifying assessors, which would have a positive impact in providing a sufficient number of expert assessors in conducting mutual evaluation for the region's countries in the current and future assessment's round. He added those workshops would raise the quality of the outputs of the future mutual evaluations conducted by the MENAFATF in accordance with the best international practices and experiences, and to produce accurate and effective recommendations that contribute to the development of the AML/CTF/CPF framework of the countries subject to the evaluation in a way that reflects the extent of the countries' commitment to combating money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation.

At the end of his speech, Mr. Adel Al-Qulish thanked the participants and the organizers to the success of the activities of this workshop, and hoping the workshop achieve the desired goals.